U+08E2 "" Arabic Disputed End of Ayah Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
U+08E2 "" Arabic Disputed End of Ayah is a specialized typographic mark used in Qur'anic manuscript traditions to indicate a potential or controversial verse boundary where scholars disagree on whether a particular point truly marks the end of a Qur'anic verse (ayah) within the Arabic script. It resembles a small, stylized circle or knot, often placed above the text, and serves as a critical editorial tool in religious and academic contexts to flag uncertainty in the canonical verse divisions without altering the established text itself. Unlike the standard end-of-ayah marker, this character explicitly denotes a point of scholarly dispute regarding the official count of verses in a given surah.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+08E2 |
| Version Added | 9.0 |
| Name | Arabic Disputed End of Ayah |
| Block | Arabic Extended-A |
| General Category | Format |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Arabic Number |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ࣢ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ࣢ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xA3 0xA2 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x08E2 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000008E2 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u08e2 |